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The best part, you decide how Noom fits into your life, not the other way around. Sign up for your trial today at Noom.com. That's N-O-O-O-M dot com to sign up for your trial today. What is Abney? Welcome to the Plus Pitch Podcast. You're more impinging podcast from pitchos.com. My name is Nick Pollock. Today we're going to talk about the Pittsburgh Pirates.

And don't, oh, wait, hold on. Do not skip through this podcast. This is actually a very interesting one. I think there are a lot of intriguing players to discuss with the pirates. They're going to face the Reds. and then they're going to face the Red Sox,

which honestly isn't the worst to start the year

because the Red Sox aren't as good in offense.

And it is Cincinnati.

Uh, the Reds and then they're going to face the Red Sox, which honestly isn't the worst to start the year because the Red Sox aren't as good in offense. And it is Cincinnati in Cincinnati.

It is the Reds in Cincinnati, which is a little bit tougher. I don't know if I necessarily want

to start these guys, but I want to have this conversation because I think there are some players

that could be actually, maybe one of them is my biggest sleeper for

2023, and we'll get into that. But I'm reviewing all 30 starting pitching rotations across

the month of January. Make sure you listen to all the other podcasts and get a full understanding

of all the options before I give you my top 200 starting pitching rankings in February. So, let's get

going with Rwantzi Contreras, who in 5-5 last year across 95 innings, a 379 ERA, 127 whip,

and a 21% K rate with actually about a 10% walk rate. Contreras feels like he should be the best

pitcher on the pirates. I'm avoiding this.

I call the Wosker Enoa rule, where if you have a really good slider, but a fastball

that allows a lot of hard contact, I am avoiding this.

It's too volatile, it's too cherry bomb-esque, and Contreras is four-seeming last year.

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